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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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